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Health and Education, Policy Updates, Special Events
by WREN Staff on Mar 10, 2017
On March 9th, WREN partnered up with Auntie Bellum to host a network Happy Hour at The War Mouth. And in case you couldn’t slip away from your desk to enjoy the afternoon sunshine, here’s what you missed: Our partnership happy hour kicked off with some WREN legislative updates, including new information regarding the progress of H.3809,… Read more
Health and Education, Policy Updates
by WREN Staff on Mar 9, 2017
WREN is pleased to report that on International Women’s Day, H.3809, a bill that would require insurance providers to cover a one-year’s supply of birth control at a time, passed through subcommittee on to the House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee. Click here to watch the full video of the subcommittee hearing. And… Read more
Health and Education, Policy Updates
by WREN Staff on Mar 3, 2017
In a recent poll conducted by Winthrop University, eighty-one percent of respondents favored requiring employers to make reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees, and nearly 70% favored requiring schools to base their reproductive health curriculum solely on evidence-based research. The people of South Carolina have spoken. Now let’s make it happen. Stand with WREN in advocating for… Read more
Health and Education, Policy Updates
by WREN Staff on Feb 23, 2017
We are over a month into our 2017-2018 legislative session, and are eager to share our first piece of introduced legislation: the Healthy Youth Act. This act would bring revisions to the outdated 1988 Comprehensive Health Education Act (CHEA) by ensuring the use of evidence-based, rigorously evaluated interventions, and by holding school districts accountable for… Read more
Health and Education, Policy Updates
by WREN Staff on Feb 21, 2017
Providing a safe and inclusive workplace atmosphere to pregnant employees is crucial in maintaining a sustainable, healthy and productive workforce. Women must often stay employed throughout their pregnancy in order to sufficiently support themselves, and their families. In fact, two out of three South Carolina women who gave birth last year were employed. Yet in spite… Read more
Health and Education, Policy Updates
by WREN Communications & Learning Team on Feb 1, 2017
One in eight U.S. couples of childbearing age has trouble conceiving or sustaining a pregnancy according to RESOLVE, a national infertility association that works to improve the lives of women and men living with infertility. We at WREN support efforts of fertility specialists who help individuals and couples grow their families through fertility technologies like… Read more
Health and Education, Policy Updates
by WREN Staff on Jan 24, 2017
Last week at our WREN Happy Hour, advocates had a chance to ask our staff members about our 2017-18 Policy Agenda and how they could stay involved in the legislative process. We are extremely optimistic about this session and our ability to pass and support crucial legislation. There was one question we couldn’t avoid: Has anything… Read more
Economic Opportunity, Health and Education, Policy Updates
by WREN Communications Team on Jan 10, 2017
Today on January 10th, 2017, South Carolina’s legislators return to the Statehouse for the beginning of the 2017-18 session. While we are excited to get back into the swing of things, we cannot thank our volunteers and advocates enough for their contributions over the past several months, and for more recently assembling our WREN information… Read more
by Eme Crawford on Dec 13, 2016
Once every seven years the South Carolina Department of Education updates the health and safety standards (standards that provide the basis for decision-making and educational policy development and development of curricula at the local level), and as a South Carolina citizen you have the opportunity to voice your support of evidence-based programs that help prevent… Read more
by Megan Plassmeyer on Sep 13, 2016
Ariel Simpson-Logan is one of those people whom you meet and instantly think, “man, she’s taking over the world someday.” Fortunately for us, she’s starting early. Ariel is currently the Grant Project Coordinator for the New Morning Foundation. Originally hired on to work with the foundation’s ambassador program in 2014, she quickly transitioned to working… Read more
Now is the time to invest in South Carolina’s women, girls, and families. We need people like you joining the movement, speaking out, and leading the way toward positive change.